3rd November 2004, 2:30 PM
Yeah ABF, I agree there, that is a pretty bad system and I'm glad it failed, as it leaves room for that other system to be set in place. (Since you know if it did succeed, it would be many years before the people would be willing to change it yet again.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)